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> what it would take to rewrite Vim from scratch Time, mainly. Computers these days are fast enough, and have enough storage space that writing Vim will be mostly straight forwards. The first thing to do, as is for all software, is to make a spec and a roadmap. The doesn't have to be anything too serious, hell, you don't even have to write it out if you don't want to - this is your project after all. (But writing thi…
QT == QuickTime
https://github.com/klange/toaruos/blob/strawberry-dev/usersp...
mentioned in these comments in HN a few days ago:
> what it would take to rewrite Vim from scratch Time, mainly. Computers these days are fast enough, and have enough storage space that writing Vim will be mostly straight forwards. The first thing to do, as is for all software, is to make a spec and a roadmap. The doesn't have to be anything too serious, hell, you don't even have to write it out if you don't want to - this is your project after all. (But writing thi…
> what it would take to rewrite Vim from scratch Time, mainly. Computers these days are fast enough, and have enough storage space that writing Vim will be mostly straight forwards. The first thing to do, as is for all software, is to make a spec and a roadmap. The doesn't have to be anything too serious, hell, you don't even have to write it out if you don't want to - this is your project after all. (But writing thi…
I was thinking of writing the core in C++ (or even Haskell - I just realised that I haven't even considered it!) and using Python as the main scripting language, sorta like it is in Blender.
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I was thinking of writing the core in C++ (or even Haskell - I just realised that I haven't even considered it!) and using Python as the main scripting language, sorta like it is in Blender.
Why not just contribute to Yi[0]? Yi has seen a lot of development activity lately, and I'm sure your contributions would be welcome. 0: https://github.com/yi-editor/yi
Thanks a ton, although I might still go ahead with my original plan.
If I were to rewrite vim I would want to avoid C/C++ and all their warts. A Rust text-editor with guaranteed memory safety would be cool.
Your OS is written in C/C++. When you know what you are doing, these languages are not harmful.
I know it's possible to write good systems software in C/C++, I just think writing in Rust is a marked improvement.